Norway mass murder suspect is insane, police say

The man accused of killing 77 people in a terrorist rampage that shook Norway last summer is insane and cannot be sentenced to prison or preventive detention, but can be confined to a mental hospital for the rest of his life, police said Tuesday.

Anders Behring Breivik suffers "grandiose delusions" and "believes he is chosen to decide who is to live and who is to die," Prosecutor Svein Holden announced.

Police said psychiatrists had determined that the 32-year-old man was psychotic at the time of the attacks and during 13 interviews experts conducted with him afterward. The doctors also found him to be paranoid and schizophrenic, police said.

The experts reached their conclusions after 36 hours of interviews with Breivik, police said.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2011/11/29/world/europe/norway-terror-suspect/index.html

 

He is also described as a one-time freemason.


Anders Behring Breivik in full masonic ceremonial attire first appeared on Anders' Facebook page.